Schreeche-Powell, Edwin ORCID: 0000-0002-5551-9649 (2020) Peer support and well-being: exploring the impact of peer-led induction on male prisoners. Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, 29 (1-2). pp. 30-60. ISSN 0838-164X (Print), 1988 - 2024 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.18192/jpp.v29i1-2.4941)

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Abstract

Since 1988, the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) has been a prisoner written, academically oriented and peer reviewed, non-profit journal, based on the tradition of the penal press. It brings the knowledge produced by prison writers together with academic arguments to enlighten public discourse about the current state of carceral institutions. This is particularly important because with few exceptions, definitions of deviance and constructions of those participating in these defined acts are incompletely created by social scientists, media representatives, politicians and those in the legal community. These analyses most often promote self-serving interests, omit the voices of those most affected, and facilitate repressive and reactionary penal policies and practices. As a result, the JPP attempts to acknowledge the accounts, experiences, and criticisms of the criminalized by providing an educational forum that allows women and men to participate in the development of research that concerns them directly. In an age where `crime` has become lucrative and exploitable, the JPP exists as an important alternate source of information that competes with popularly held stereotypes and misconceptions about those who are currently, or those who have in the past, faced the deprivation of liberty.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	peer support; mental health; wellbeing; prison; pain; critical criminology; intervention; iatrogenesis
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) K Law > K Law (General) L Education > L Education (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Law & Criminology (LAC)
Last Modified:	01 Feb 2024 14:04
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/45472

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